The Art Of Making Yourself Look Better Online

There is no hotel on Santorini that doesn't look amazing in the photos on their website. They all show rooms with white washed walls and clear blue exteriors. Glasses of wine on tables overlooking amazing sunsets. Beauty products are the same online, promising supermodel style complexions with no wrinkles in sight. Flickr is full of photos that are "tweaked" in some way to slightly increase…

The Art Of Keyword Research

Finding the right keywords to use leads to good SEO. At SMX Advanced session "Keyword Research Artistry" the panel offered tips on effectively leveraging keywords. Coverage of SMX Advanced continues at Webproworld Videos. Stay with Webproworld for more updates and videos from the event this week.

Men Most Followed on Twitter

Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski, grad student and professor at Harvard Business School, examined a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users and discovered an interesting phenomenon. Though women outnumber men on the microblogging site, men have more followers and are twice as likely to follow a man than a woman.

Facebook Won’t Give You Bad Grades

In April, Ohio State University rode the publicity wave provided by news outlets everywhere reporting the school’s finding that Facebook users had lower grades than non-Facebook users. A new study contradicts the first and the authors declare the opposite correlation while ripping on the first author’s methods. An academic catfight ensued, and those are guaranteed […]

Google Launches Analytics Dashboard For Local Businesses

Google is launching a new dashboard feature today that allows business owners to see how customers find their website. The new dashboard is called Local Business Center (LBC) and is a free tool that allows business owners to also control the content of their business listings as they appear in Google Search and Google Maps. Business owners can take advantage of the new tool by…